Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $20

The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $20 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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Median reviewer playtime divided by price. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
  1. 1Don't Starve Together62 h/$
  2. 2CryoFall27 h/$
  3. 3Rust22 h/$
  4. 4Terraria19 h/$
  5. 5Don't Starve14 h/$
  6. 6Space Engineers11 h/$
  7. 7Deadside9.8 h/$
  8. 8Survivalist: Invisible Strain8.9 h/$
  9. 9Green Hell8.8 h/$
  10. 10Valheim7.6 h/$
  11. 11Starbound6.7 h/$
  12. 12ARK: Survival Evolved6.4 h/$
  13. 13Project Zomboid5.5 h/$
  14. 14The Long Dark5.5 h/$
  15. 15TerraTech5.3 h/$
  16. 16Ostranauts4.4 h/$
  17. 17Empyrion - Galactic Survival4.3 h/$
  18. 18Grounded4.1 h/$
  19. 19The Survivalists3.5 h/$
  20. 20Longvinter3.4 h/$
  21. 21The Planet Crafter3.4 h/$
  22. 22Subsistence3.3 h/$
  23. 23ASKA3.0 h/$
  24. 24The Infected3.0 h/$
  25. 25Core Keeper3.0 h/$
  26. 26The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria3.0 h/$
  27. 27Dinkum2.9 h/$
  28. 28Necesse2.8 h/$
  29. 29The Front2.4 h/$
  30. 30Rising World2.3 h/$
  31. 31Sunkenland2.2 h/$
  32. 32SurrounDead2.2 h/$
  33. 33Outpath2.1 h/$
  34. 34Raft2.1 h/$
  35. 35DUCKSIDE1.9 h/$
  36. 36Mist Survival1.9 h/$
  37. 37DeadPoly1.9 h/$
  38. 38Volcanoids1.9 h/$
  39. 39Castle Story1.8 h/$
  40. 40Crashlands1.8 h/$
  41. 41Forever Skies1.7 h/$
  42. 42Forager1.7 h/$
  43. 43Eden Crafters1.7 h/$
  44. 44I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival1.5 h/$
  45. 45The Forest1.3 h/$
  46. 46Nova Lands1.0 h/$
  47. 47CastleMiner Z0.9 h/$
  48. 48Survive the Nights0.8 h/$
  49. 49Tribes of Midgard0.7 h/$
  50. 50Stranded Deep0.7 h/$
  51. 51Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition0.7 h/$
  52. 52Arctico0.2 h/$

How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.